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Acquisitions have accelerated our market
leadership, and have helped us further diversify
routes to customers.  ey’ve also expanded our
mix of form factors for providing software—
as downloadable media, as a subscription
service and as an easy-to-install hardware
appliance.
We’ve taken a pragmatic approach to
inte grating these businesses into our ongoing
operations, focusing on people, on culture
and on building a bigger opportunity for
everyone. Smart selection and successful
acquisition integration are allowing us
to deliver excellent  nancial results and
to dramatically improve our value—to
customers, employees and investors.
Globalization
Flex Working
Branch Expansion
Mobility
E-Commerce
Consolidation
Security
Compliance
Continuity
Web Services
Signifi cant business, technical and evolutionary forces are increasing the distance between
where people work and where applications are best hosted.
We are being rewarded for our long-term
approach, for staying aggressive with our
strategy, and for making a di erence with
customers. Today, Citrix has the core tech-
nologies that make it possible for anyone to
work from anywhere. Systematically, we’re
enabling customers to break the rigid con-
nections between where people work and
where applications are best managed.
In my 12 years with Citrix, I have not seen
a time when our vision, technology and
products are better aligned with customer
needs, making us more market-relevant
and strategic. All signs indicate that our
relevance is increasing faster than ever.
The pace of change for our customers—
along political, business and technological
dimensions—is far exceeding expectations
and preparation. Today’s dynamic world is
in uenced by several mega-forces. Globaliza-
tion is shi ing the optimal location of business
processes and workforces in fundamental ways.
Geo-political and geo-physical events are dis-
rupting the workforce more frequently, costing
businesses, governments and individuals mil-
lions in lost productivity and revenue. Industries,
corporations and datacenters are consolidating
at a record pace, creating ever more complex
business situations to be serviced by IT organi-
zations. Every day, governments are holding
Vision, Technology and Market Alignment